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Actress Bette Davis will be the subject of a U.S.P.S. stamp this year. No word on Joan. (Photo by USPS/AP)
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It’s official: 2008 is the year of the gay. Dish was going to declare this anyway, as she does each year, but this year it’s for true. And that’s because the U.S. Postal Service is issuing a postage stamp!
Sadly, there’s never been a solo stamp. Davis is being honored this year because it’s the 100th anniversary of her birth — such a shame she’s not still with us, but mean people die early, as everyone knows. The stamp is the 14th in the Legends of Hollywood series, according to the Associated Press.
And of course, Davis surpassed Crawford in Academy Awards wins, boasting two to Crawford’s measly one. Oh, those two dames. So wiley. But it really is cruel of the Postal Service to choose sides in that enduring battle royale. Imagine the reaction of Crawford, whom as we all know campaigned against Davis in the 1963 Oscar race. Only Davis was nominated for best actress in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” Could you even imagine what Crawford would have done over Davis getting a postage stamp before her?
Looks like Joan got snubbed again.
London’s Daily Mail newspaper is mostly full of crap, sneeringly rude to its sources and quasi-unethical, so Dish loves it. A recent story on and has Dish all aghast. Of course, Daily Mail mostly focuses on Chastity’s weight, but also manages to squeeze in just an inkling of news, which is that the two are pitching a reality program in which they would star.
That’s right. “Coming Out with Cher and Chas” will show the pair as counselors aiding people who are struggling to come out as gay to their parents. If it sounds odd that Cher and Chastity, whose relationship was famously frosty and did not go well during Chastity’s coming-out process, are advising people about this, rest assured — it is totally bizarre. Daily Mail is rarely accurate, but Dish loves this idea and hopes to one day appear on the show in preparation for her own coming out.
Actress checked herself into jail recently as required for her probation violation. Rodriguez, whose sexual orientation is of the up-in-the-air variety, isn’t from the school of jail behavior. Rodriguez asked to actually be a part of the prison community, a correctional officer told US Magazine.
“She’s nice, personable, down to earth … nothing like Paris Hilton,” the officer said. “She asked to work. She said she wanted a job and didn’t want to be isolated like other celebs.”
Well, that’s nice, isn’t it?
Theater is dead. After health woes, -ex has been forced to indefinitely postpone his one-man show “David Gest is Nuts…My Life As a Musical,” according to the New York Post’s Page Six. Maybe it’s for the better, honestly.
Page Six also recently ran a wonderful quote from gay actor about’s recent thanking of her rumoured partner at an awards event in L.A. He says her remarks don’t demonstrate that acceptance of gay actors in Hollywood has increased.
“It’s the opposite,” he told the Times of London. “She is 45 and just couldn’t be bothered anymore. After a certain age you can be gay in Hollywood. Before that, it’s not only not good, it’s impossible.
In his latest film “St. Trinian’s,” which is about a girls’ boarding school, Everett appears in drag as the headmistress, natch.
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